Chandler, George Clinton, D.D., was born March 19, 1807, at Chester, Vt. ; baptized in 1825, and licensed to preach in 1831

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Chandler, George Clinton, D.D., was born March 19, 1807, at Chester, Vt. ; baptized in 1825, and licensed to preach in 1831; graduated at Madison University in 1835, and in 1838, after a three years’ course, at Newton; Sept. 5, 1838, was ordained, and soon after went to Indiana as a home missionary, and preached one year at Terre Haute. In 1839, he became pastor at Indianapolis, and in 1843 was appointed president of Franklin College. After seven years of great success as an educator, he was urged to go to Oregon as president of the young Baptist college there. He crossed the plains in 1851, and was for many years at the head of the institution, but subsequently gave himself to _ pastoral and missionary work, preaching and tray- eling over nearly all parts of the State. In 1874 he was summoned to the vacant pulpit at Dalles, Oregon, and promptly heeded the call. In November 1874, after preaching from the words, ‘I can do all things through Christ,’ he was listening to the Sunday-school song, ‘‘ Shall we meet beyond the River ?’’ when the book fell from his hands ; he sat motionless, having been struck by paralysis. From that attack he has never recovered. In his home, at Forest Grove, he sits speechless still, apparently unconscious of all that is passing around him, or of the great work he has done in his long and useful life. His family is one of the most de- votedly pious in Oregon. His oldest son, Rey. E. K. Chandler is a successful pastor at Rockfield, Ill. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart